Ecclesiasm

We had no idea this was going on, so we were heading toward the arms and armor (naturally) and took a turn through medieval and byzantine art, and walked into another world.

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Do Not Do This

Do not pull a razor blade from its protective cover, in such a way that the edge of the razor is passing right across your own boob. Just don’t. This advice is gender neutral: this is not how a sword is to be handled.

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Bready or Not

My skills at drawing are so bad that when I draw a stick figure, people think it’s a doodle. So I use prosthetics to sketch designs and see what I like and what I don’t. This is intended to be a bread-scoring knife for commentariat(tm) member jazzlet.

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Grass! (Formerly GMO)

A year and a half ago I posted images of my cornfield sprouting through various states. [stderr] Since that time, the price for ethanol has dropped sharply, so the farmer(s) in the area who were making corn just harvested the fields and … left.

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Fireflies

The Firefly Festival never happened, mostly because the fireflies respect no one’s schedule – some night in June and, wham! Fireflies. I wanted to host a dinner out in the grass with them, but it’s impossible to get guests to commit to show up on some random evening in June.

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